From Bokuritome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the Rabbis are joined by Rabbi David Lau, Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel.

Rabbi Lau talks about how he got started as a rabbi, explains what Israel can learn from American Jewish communities,

and discusses the critical role of the Rabanut in Israel.

Also, who is behind the Bima's audience? And who did the

rabbis consult with before taking on new responsibilities? All this and more behind the Bima.

Wednesday night 9 p.m. I'm Rabbi F.m. We're joined by my dear friends and colleagues,

Rabbi Philip Moskowitz, and a special welcome back to our long lost friend. There was a lot of speculation whether he'd be coming back, whether he'd be brought back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back. Welcome back to our friend, Rabbi Joshua Brody. Gentlemen, good evening to both of you. How are you? Welcome to Behind the Beema. I forgot to say it's Behind the Beema. Welcome to Behind the Bima. A good night to all. Welcome.

Great to have you back with us. And thank you. Thank you for writing those reviews. We have a

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We've got our cups. We've got our car magnets. We've got fantastic hats. And we will send the winner who takes a moment to review. But let's begin, as we always do, our Karstitov, with gratitude and attitude of gratitude. Tonight, we're grateful to our generous sponsor. Thank you, Dr. Aviva Distanfeld, who sponsored in honor of her husband's recent success in the fact that he won a tournament and donated all the money to Tostaka.

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Gentlemen, how is your week?

Busy week.

I could tell you, I really wanted to tune in and see if I can go live.

But when I was camping out at Masada and forget the fact that there's no Wi-Fi, but I figured, you know what, I'll use some cell network and I'll get on the, I'll get on the show, but then all of a sudden I realized they shut all the lights, like you wouldn't be able to see. It would just be a black screen. There's nothing there, but it was great. That wouldn't be the first time, though, that you've come to us from strange locations yeah you should see some of the other places everybody welcome back for the audience who maybe didn't listen the last couple weeks but brodie was not with us he was traveling he was in our holy land eritzisrael during corona most people couldn't go to israel once or abrody seemed to have been there every other month. Not sure how we told that off.

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